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THE UPSON PILOT.
G. A. MILLER. Editor.
Thomas!on, Thursday, May 10, IM9.
Change in tin* |jy of PiiMiratiou.
To accommodate a large number of our
subscribers, we have concluded to change
our publication day from Thursday to Sat
urday. The next issue of the ]Glot will be
dated on Saturday the 28th, instead of
Thursday the 26th inst.
OPPOSITION MEETING.
Pursuant to previous notice, the Oppo
sition meeting assembled in the Court
House here, on Friday last. On motion,
Judge Thomas F. Bethel was called to the
Chair and Robert F. Patillo acted as Sec
retary. After consultation among the i
friends of the meeting, and owing to the
pressure of Court business, on motion, it
■was unanimously resolved that the meet
ing do adjourn until the first Monday in
June, it being the Monday of the Special
Term of the Superior Court.
The Chairman appointed Dr. E. A.
Flewellen, Thomas S. Sharman and G. A.
Miller, Esqs., to act as an Executive and
corresponding committee for tho County.
RAILROAD MEETING.
A meeting of the friends of the Thomas
tnn & Barnesville and Muscogee Railroad
Connection will assemble in the Court
House at Thomaston on the first Monday
in June next. Come one, come all 1
“ Shall we have a Convention ?”
This is the heading of an excellent arti- 1
° i
cle in the National American of May 12.
in relation to a Gubernatorial Convention
and the nomination of an Opposition can- ;
didate. We expressed our views fully on
this subject some weeks ago, and we think
now, as we thought then, that a Conven
tion should assemble and the party organ
ize throughout the State. Without such
organization we think the party would suf
fer in the Congressional and Legislative
elections. We speak only for ourselves,
when we say that we are perfectly willing j
to trust a Convention of our friends with
the wisdom, duty and responsibility, after
due deliberation and under all the circum
stances, of making a nomination and the
naming of the nominee.
The American suggests Macon as the
place, and the 6th of July as the time, for
the meeting of the Convention. The peo
ple of this County will respond to this call
on the first Monday of next month. In
the meantime, we wish our readers to pon- !
der well the question put by the Columbus ;
Enquirer—
‘•Are you willing to support Gov. Brown
if the charge made against him by the Ful
ton and Cass Demoeracv is substantiated ?
WILL YOU DESERT YOUR PARTY
ERIE XDS FOR AN ALLIANCE
WITH THE CORRUPT DEMOCRA
CY UNDER SUCH A LEADER ?”
Opposition raii(lid:H(s tor I'oisaress sa
the Third District.
W e transfer to our columns two com
munications from the Georgia Citizen and
one from the American Union in relation
to the nomination of a candidate from this
Congressional District. We have no per
sonal acquaintance with Dr. Simmons, but
doubtless he is a gentleman of talents and
high virtues. Mr. Fambro and Mr. Hill
are too well known to need a recommenda
tion from us. Either of the two would
represent the District with credit to them
selves and honor to their constituents.
Special Tern* of tlc Superior Court.
Judge Cabaniss has officially designated
and appointed the First Monday of June
next (it being the 6th day of the month)
for the holding of a Special Term of the
Superior Court for this County. Take
notice !
Warm Springs of Upson.
It will be seen by reference to A. P.
Jackson’s Advertisement that this Sum
mer Retreat will be opened on the 23d of
this month. The delightful baths —the
healthy and romantic location of these
Springs, and the kind attention which vis
itors will receive, we hope will commend
this new Summer Watering Place to the
patronage of the public.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
“Tallulah” is received, but we never
publish anonymous communications, be
sides, we think the market is already glut
ted by Northern kellow-“ kiveredb’ bread
and butter love stories, where the heroines
are all Angels and the heroes, Gods. If
we are to be deluged with romance, let it
be the romance of real life. True genius
will discover more poetry and genuine he
roism in a poor, obscure woman, sitting in
l “unwomanly rags ” toiling “ weary and
j worn ” from day to day to support
her orphaned children, than in a thousand
of your Caroline-Matildas who are wont to
“die like roses in aromatic pain ” simply
because her whiskered lover, Charles, Au
gustus, Brutus, Caisar, with his languish
ing eyes and foreign airs, happened to fancy
lean Molly Brown, or fat Nancy Jones, or
one of the innumerable family of Smiths,
and led her a blushing bride to the altar.
Our modern Literature wants backbone,
nerve and muscle, and above all, truth and
originality. It has too much soft heart and
too little hard brain; or, in other words, it
is like a hull-bat—all feathers and no
meat.
I
Party Spirit and Its Intolerance.
We believe the rank and file of all par- j
tics arc honest. We further believe that
party spirit, when confined within certain !
bounds, exercises a most healthful and
beneficial influence. Like the salt ot the
I sea, it preserves the political waters from
stagnation. Like the child of the storm —
the brilliant thunderbolt, it purifies the
political atmosphere. Like Darby’s Pro
phylactic, it disaftects the foetid vapors and
removes the cankers of that repose which
may at last settle on the body politic and i
end m the torpor of a deadly despotism.
With a sharp eye to detect and a steady j
hand to wield the instrument, it probes the 1
corruptions of those in authority and keeps!
eternal watch and ward upon a nation's j
treasury.
Such, in some degree, are the legitimate j
good fruits of party when controled and {
kept pure by the eternal vigilance of a ;
people that value rational liberty—a liber- j
ty where life, character, property and the 1
pursuit of happiness is protected by wise 1
and equal laws, impartially executed.—
When, however, party degenerates into a
mere struggle for the spoils—when it is
made superior to country and overrides the
convictions of truth, conscience and proof,
strong as Holy Mr it — when it closes its
eyes and refuses to acknowledge either hon
esty or intelligence in political opponents,
then it should cease to command the ap
probation of the patriotic, the wise or the
good.
We think the self-called Democratic
party, through the influence of its leaders,
for years past, has been sunk into this, the
lowest deep of political corruption and in
tolerance. From the day Secretary Marcy
first littered the sentiment— “to the vic
tors belong the spoils ,’’ this robber doctrine j
has been carried into practice by the lead
ers ot* the Democracy. Neither ago, in- 1
tegrily. talents or services have shielded
those opposed to its destructive influences j
from a ruthless proscription. From the
representatives to Foreign Courts to the
boot black who plies bis brush in the Pres- j
idential kitchen—from the election ot a
United States Senator to the election of a
door-keeper—“ Mo to the conquered is:
the devise inscribed on the shield ol every
official demagogue. Party and proscrip
tion have triumphed over principle and pa- j
triotism, until our country has ceased to j
be respected abroad ; and the seeds of so- j
cial and national corruption (the Dragon's
teeth which at no distant day may spring
up armed men) sown by the hands of fa
natics and agitators, is now taking root all
over our land and giving signs of fearful
vitality. It has pandered to ignorance,
prejudice and bigotry until domestic Black
Republicanism and foreign Red Hepubli
. canism are rampant in our midst, and our
| wisest and best Statesmen have been driv
en into exile by slanderous blood-hounds—
or fallen in the fight for Constitutional lib
erty have been crushed to death by the
wheels of this popular Juggernaut.
Are there no remedies for our present
admitted evils, short of the bayonet and a
dissolution of the government ? We know
of but one, and that is, enlightened public
opinion acting by and through the ballot
box. Let the good, wise and conservative
of all parties, unite and first drive the
Got-lis and A andals from our National
Capitol. Let the cause of pollution be re
moved and then purification will have
commenced, and although the work is Her
culean. yet time, industry and perseverance
may at length triumph, and the Augean
. stable be cleansed from its mountain load
THE EPSON PILOT, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 19,1859.
of corruption. It is no time to dispute
about trifles when the official sappers and
miners are under our national walls and
the bombs of anarchy are sending in every
direction their deadly contents over and
into our sacred homes.
Georgia Politically.
The following picture of Georgia Politi
cians, by a Georgia Democratic Artist, the
Southern Confederacy, is sketched with a
bold hand. The Confederacy says :
“We will venture the assertion that in
the political annals of no State in the Con
federacy is there half the corruption, half
the bargain, half the low cunning, and
halt the venality as there exists at this
time, in Georgia politics. To speak in
general terms there is almost a universal
combination and understanding amongst
Georgia politicians to cheat, to defraud,
to swindle and to stifle the popular voice.
This combination is almost, if not quite,
as well organized as any sworn league or
Jacobin club that ever existed. Each man
and clique is parcelled out to perform cer
tain, duties, and promised certain rewards.
There is a general concert of action and
mutual understanding that no matter what
sort of a card you play, the game is dost.
They always hold a flush —lose the deal—
or turn jack; and invariably claim the
game. The whole operation is a species
of frontier gambling with stocked hands
and marked cards.
Compare the combination to a faro bank,
there is as much certainly in betting on
the split as by coppering the ace. No re
liabilily, no guarantee of anything that is
likely to conflict with the interests of this
great joint stock gambling company. No
law seems to reach them, tor they have
the bench as well as the bar, the church,
the banks, the versatile old maids, thecol
portures, news-mongers, neighb rhoed tat
tles, stage drivers, hotel keepers, tapsters,
serenaders, and the Press. All these par
ties are promised something. The Judges
shall be promoted ; all Attorneys shall go
to Congress ; the old maids are promised
distinguished partners for life, and are to
spend their winters in Washington City,
and their summers at the White Sulphur,
or Saratoga Springs ; the colporteurs shall
find ready purchasers for all tracts and
righteous pamphlets, and heathens innu
merable, professing the reading faculty;
newsmongers and tattlers will be well sup
plied with old clothes, pocket money, a
house to live in and their taxes paid ; all
stage drivers are promised large mail con
tracts or special agencies ; hotel keepers
are to be legalized by a special act to raise
the price of meals from fifty cents to a dol
lar—to have a right, fee simple, to hold
all baggage where the owner is in arrears,
and the right of arrest by possessory war
rant and the casa act, are to be wiped
from the statute book ; all tapsters will bo
privileged to adulterate ad libitum with
strychnine, scotch snutf, May apple, cop
peras and blue stone —with the proviso
that a little of the simon pure is reserved
for the faithful; serenaders shall be sym
bolical of the combination—and like Mo
ses when he lifted the serpent in the wil
derness, even so shall the serenaders blow
and pipe to suit the times.
The Frvss shall possess the tinge of the
rainbow, the smoothness of ground glass,
the whiteness of ihe lilly, the power of the
pruning-hook, the pungency of cayenne,
the docility of the lamb, the voice of the
nighteugale, and the hue of the chamelion.
Foreign missions, first class clerkships, ad
vertising, fat jobs, and free tickets gene
rallv, all gilded by the lustre of the rival
of tire sword, will be held up as lozenges
to these mighty heroes or Don Quixotic
Sir Knights.
The Banks shall be allowed to issue five
to one, establish broker agencies at Jlotcls,
shave paper at two per cent, a month,
(when the basis is not country produce)
distribute their bills on the railroads,
make their quarterly returns at seven per
cent., and at the same time secure ten, and
still swear to the truth. Such is the pro
gramme in Georgia. There arc not less
than a half dozen prominent politicians
who expect the Senatorship, at least forty
count certainly on being the Governor af
ter the retirement of liis Excellency, Jo
seph, and nearly every man in the State
that ever shipped a load of wheat or bale
of cotton expects confidently to be Super
intendent. Every fellow that ever held
stakes at a cock-fight, or quarter race,
thinks there is not the slightest doubt
about being the next Treasurer of the State
Road. And as for Auditor of the State
Road, all the old women that have ever
witnessed the settlement of an account
consider this appointment as certain as
death.
Who will be tbe next Attorney of the
State Road we cannot conjecture. Colo
nel Chastain, the present incumbent, we
learn, is determined to go to the next Con
gress of the U. S. From the best infor
mation we can gather there will he a gen
eral-scramble over this office. If we are
correctly informed every Attorney who is
known to Dr. Lewis or Governor Brown,
or who has ever traveled over the State
Road has been promised this office. Many
of these fellows are at present applying
themselves with great diligence to an un
derstanding of the laws of Tennessee, j
thereby intending to give the Tennesseans
“ fits” in their constant efforts to swindle j
the great State Road in their shipment of
bacon, irish potatoes and beeswax. We
also learn that up in Cherokee, quite a j
number of justices -f the P<; aqs expect by
promise, to get this important appoint
ment. Whilst there are a modest few of
1 lie legal profession who hold other offices
and are much engaged in the nisi prius
practice, refuse commissions, but in impor
tant cases will act as Counsellors for free
tickets.
How to unravel this jungle of current
swimming trading is difficult to determine.
To bundle them in a heap and apply the
torch, we fear would scarcely destroy them,
for the germ is like that of the broom
sedge, legionary and feathered. To eradi
cate by the purest seedling will take much
time and patience, hut this is the best pol
icy. Then let the work commence. Lot
good grain be sown with an eye single to
the extermination of the tares. If not,
surrender the State as one vast wilderness
of noxious weeds, the fermenter of miasms,
the cesspool of death, the granary of cor
ruption. Let Georgia, now the hot bed
of polluted political traffic he bored, tre
paned, eviscerated, sacrificed, cauterized
and fumigated.
Such will continue to be the misfortune
of Georgia so long as she is controlled by
the Cobbs and the Browns, and all of that
ilk. who are wholly devoid of common hon
esty or patriotism. Let the whole tribe
be stifled and buried without an inquest.”
The President and John Forsyth.
The following is the conclusion of a long
communication written by John Forsyth,
late Minister to Mexico, to the Editor of
the Mobile Register. The conduct of the
President as related by Mr. Forsyth, is
perfectly consistent with that duplicity and
malevolence which has ever marked the
character of Janies Buchanan, and which
especially characterized his slanders of
the “Great Commoner,” Henry Clay,
(slanders which he never possessed the*
magnanimity to retract), and which at a
recent period held Robert J. Walker, his
Governor, up as a shield to protect himself
from the shafts of his Southern friends for
his freesoii instructions to abolitionize
Kansas Mr. Forsyth says :
1 submit, after all thvj, if it is not a little late for the
Administration to aver that it found fault with any part
ot my conduct as its minister to Mexico? I cannot, in
justice, close this communication, without thus public
ly offering tbe tribute of my thanks and admiration for
the liank. kind mat ‘generous deportment of the vener
able (Secretary ot State, in ail his public and private
correspondence and personal intercourse with me. I
feel ti perfect assurance that, had hi- voice been poten
tial in the V hite House. I should not now have to write
of those idiosyncrasies of character, which are discov
erable sooner or later to all who have dealings with
James Buchanan.
It. as the organ declares, 1 had other friends in the
cabinet besides General Cass. I am very sure I have
never seen the first evidence of it. In the absence of
such proof, and in the presence of their conduct towards
me, Ido not believe a word of it. Ido not think that
cabinet is friendly to any man of my political complex
ion. If 1 hail chosen to t alk - the influence of my south
ern political friends in Washington, and protested
through them against superseding me for and >ingmy du
ty. 1 knew that the GJyermnent would not have dared
to do it. My friends offered me their services, and
warned me that that was the only way to deal with the
■ sage of Wheatland. ‘ i declined their offers peremp
torily, avering that, as I was appointed to Mexico, with
out as much as a hint, in the way of asking for it, and
without the importunity of my friends, I would not be
indebted to such means for going hack. 1 left my case
to the unbiased justice and judgment of the President
and cabinet* 1 have found out the value of the reli- ;
anee.
And now. to avoid misconstructions, let it not be im
agined that 1 hold Mr. Buchanan to be the Democrat
ic party, and that, in losing my confidence in him I have
lost my feait v to my party, or my abiding attachment j
to it< principles. I may he a good Democrat, and iibt ;
think very well of him. I should bk so Democrat j
AT ALU WEEK I TO ENDORSE ALL THE MEASURES A.XI) :
SHORTCOMINGS OF lUS ADMINISTRATION’.
JOHN FORSYTII.
Mobile. .May 1. ISoO.
Mercer University.
Wo return our thanks to B. I). Lutns- !
don, Esq., for a catalogue of the Officers j
and Students of Mercer University, Pen
field, Geo, April, 1859.
Summary of Students —College, 123 ;
Theological, 13 ; Total, 136.
By a late resolution of the Board of j
Trustees, tlie sons of Baptist ministers,
residents of Georgia, and the sons of till
Baptist ministers who have died in the ser
vice of the Church within the State are
entitled to the privileges of the University
free of tuition—such students, however,
paying tlieir own room rent and incidental
expenses.
Prophylactic Fluid.
This celebrated Fluid, by Dr. Darby, of
Auburn, Ala., is attracting the attention
of the scientific world. Let everybody go ;
to Woodson <Sc Bowdre, of this place, and
at once purchase a supply. Now is the
time to expose it in your bed rooms and
use it in bathing and you will experience j
that an ounce of prevention is better than
a pound of cure.
superior court.
The Superior Court for this County, af
ter a laborious session of two weeks, ad
journed on last Saturday. Phil, a negro
hoy, charged with an assault on the body
of Dr. A. T. Shackelford with the intent to
murder, was convicted and sentenced to be
whipped, and branded on the cheek. George
Kenneday, charg; and with stealing a slave. ‘
was also convicted, but the presiding Judge
believing the verdict not warranted by the
testimony, granted the accused anew trial.
/UST W. A. Snell has an advertisement
which be wishes you to road.
THE KENESAW GEM,
By the Young Ladies of Marietta Female
College is on our table. We cannot say
that the Gem is of the first water, hut it
emits many rays of the purest serene. Sue-
I cess to the Gem, and may# it sparkle in
every family.
For tho Upson Pilot.
To Leon.
Self-love never yet could look on truth
But with bleared eyes. Ben Junson.
I envy not your harp,
Though mine alas! be broken —
I baie not how you carp,
So I the truth have spoken.
You say I've tried too soon
To tune my harp —like many—
Yours, try no more to tune
For tin pa?is ne'er hiul any.
lie, who would dare to raise
Thy sinful bosom’s vizard,
Would find much to thy praise —
A heart 1 ah ! no, a gizzard.
This learn, there’s none so blind
As those who can, but see not;
And such the gods can't bind
To truth ; for they agree not.
CASTILE.
Covington, Georgia.
For the Upson Pilot.
TIV SIWI IIOIIE.
In my own sunny home, ’neatli the Southern >kies
Where the bright (lowers bloom, of the richest dies
And the mocking bird’s wild song is heard for hours
From his leafy home, in the dark myrtle bowers,
There all is fair —there 1 still sigh to loam,
Back, back to my own, my own sunny home.
, I have wandered ‘mid orange groves and there I’ve seen,
l The bright fruit hanging from its emerald sheen,
: There the silvery stream glides so limpid and free
! ’Neath the wide sprea 1 branches of the magnolia tree
j Though here, there is beauty, mv heart still will roam
’ Back, back to the scenes of my own sunny home.
I Amid the gay scenes of the stranger’s home,
; Where are gathered happy laces, and music’s tone
j Is wafted cm air w ith a sweet soothing chime
, As if to lighten the wings of old time,
Yet amidst kind friends, and dear lovely scenes,
i To my far Southern home my pi.it liil leans.
j 1
1 For the Upson Pilot,
i Ernest and Leila; or, The Faithful Couple.
It. was the close of one of those lovely
days, we so often have in the waning ol
summer ; the sky was cloudless, with here
and there a twinkling star, resembling is—
; lands slumbering in si calm sea ; those leSb
: brilliant, were obscured hv the superior
brightness of the Queen of night. The
(leaves were slightly rutiled by a light
breeze playing among them, all else was
j still and quiet, in the beautiful part of the
i city called, from-its great number of tall
j elms, Elmwood. In a room of one of its
! most splendid residences on a low silken
! divan a fair maid was reclining, awaiting
the presence of one who never failed to
send a thrill of joy to her heart and awaken
a corresponding chord in his.
fche sat beneath an open window, with
its richly embroidered curtain falling in
deep folds slightly pushed aside to emit
the rays of g< title Luna, who had just rose
above the horizon and scorned more than
ever to give all nature a touch of her sweet
sadness. The beautiful Leila had been
watching her (Luna’s) rise, and many
pleasing recollections had been recalled by
the object on which she gazed. She was
aroused by a gentle rap on the door, and
answered, “Come in !” The door opened
and her expected visitor entered, made a
low bow, and approached her in a very
j dignified manner, fche returned the salu
i tation. He seated himself beside her. and
i looking into her face, said, “Leila, did you
j not expect me to call earlier ?” “Perhaps
! I should have thought you late had I not
| fallen into such a deep train of thought,
I suggested by the moon-rise, I’ve observed
j with so much pleasure this evening!”—
I “Then you were caught in the same trap
with myself,” Ernest replied, with a smile.
And proceeding to offer an apology, said,
“After tea I took a stroll from the city ;
went to my favorite resort—the little brook
where we have so often met ; seated myself
on the hank, and was soon lost in thought.
Ere long, the pale moon’s face was mirror
ed-in the clear liquid sheet spread out be
fore me, forcibly reminding me of one 1
ardently love. While 1 sat there thus
musing on the past and picturing my fu
ture, that buoyant youth, Hope, dared to
whisper—‘She loves thee/ Now, Leila,
you know without further assurance who J
speak of. Tell me, am 1 deceived? In j
seeking the future partner of my life I have j
not looked for the gay, proud or wealthy, j
but only for the good and true. Such my !
heart tells me 1 have found in you. Will
you be mine?”
Leila’s face was suffused with the warm
blushes of love, and the glance of her soft
blue eye, which met his, assured him of
her love. Words could not have been more ;
effectual, fche placed her hand in his,
opened to receive it. He took from his
finger a ring, placed it on hers—sealing !
their marriage vow. He remained, talking j
to her of the happiness he anticipated. !
until the massive chick told that it was
time to depart. He arose, kissed the tips
of his lady-love’s fingers, and directed his
steps homeward.
[TO BE CONTINUED.]
Fifth Congressional District. —Col. j
James It. Gamble, of Chattooga county, is j
announced as an American candidate to ‘
represent the sth Congressional District in
the next Congress.
T/i. ’ fr.’C John N. Webb’S” card.
For the Upson Pilot. ~
American Aleetingj in Monroe.
At a meeting of the American partv of
Monroe County, held this day in the town
of Forsyth, for the purpose of appointing
delegates to attend a Convention of said
party .of the Third Congressional District
Col. John L. Woodward was called to the
Chair and T. B. Cabaniss requested to act
as Secretary.
On motion, a committee of five consist,
ing of J. T. Stephens, Esq., Dr. Jas. M.
Larsons, A. D. Hammond, Esq, Dr J II
Etlieredge and Jesse Mays, Esq., was ap
pointed by the Chairman to report, the
names or suitable persons to attend tho
said Convention, and frame resolutions ex
pu .->si\ e ot the sense of the meeting ; who
alter retiring, reported through their Chair
nnin, John T. Stephens, Esq., the follow
ing named persons as suitable delegates •
A. DHammond, Esq., Col. John T. Crow
’i V ’ at ! S ’ Jollu Ti - Woodward and
* ■ 1“ Bairns , also, the following resolu
tions :
1. Resolved, That the American partv
ot Monroe still adhere to the principles as
enunciated in the platform of 1857. and
inrite all who feel an interest in their
maintenance, and those who arc opposed
to the wild extravagance of the present
Administration, and are against uniting
the sword, purse and war-making power
in the hands of the President, to co-oper
ate with us in the approaching elections.
2. Resolved , That the interests of the
South require that wo should no longer
trust our destinies to the faithless policy
of the Administration. It has left the
Treasury bankrupt, attempted to revive a
ruinous tariff system, ami projected a Pa
cific Railroad scheme, requiring a large
outlay of public money, which will fend to
add strength and powvr to 1 lie North to the
disadvantage and inequality of the South
in I lie Union, and which, it accomplished,
will beonine a source of corruption in com
ing Federal Administrations unexampled
in the history of this country.
3. Resolved , That the forty-four North
ern Democrats, with Mr. Douglas ns tlieir
leader, have proved iaithless to the pledges
of Southern Democrats, as we prophesied
and expected—that, having withdrawn
their forces, they have loffe the Democratic
party disorganized, w ith no principle in
common, and in many parts of tlx* Union
the remnants of tliat organization have be
come mere factions, with no aim or object
save the spoils of office.
4. Resolved. That the American party
having repeatedly declared against Popular
Sovereignty and in favor of non-interven
tion in tlie Territorus, need no Northern
interpreters of tlieir creed, and are deter
mined to.maintain those principles without
compromise with any section for political
success or party power.
5. Resolved, That we are j aim'd to an
nounce tho determination of our immedi
ate Representative, Hon. R. P. Trippe, to
decline a re-nomination to Congress. {Should
he consent to answer the unanimous wish
of his party, he is our first choice for the
succession. His eminently patriotic course,
his incorruptible integrity, flis ability and
devotion to the bests inti rests < f the {South
and country, demand tho gratitude of his
constituents and this expression of our
sorrow upon his retirement.
6. Resolved, That w e accept the sugges
tion of our friends of Crawford County,
that a Convention of the American party
l>c held in Forsyth on the first Wednesday
in July next. Ur the purpose of nomina
ting a candidate for the Third Congres
sional District of Georgia.
\\ hieh report was, on motion, received
and adopted.
On motion of J. It. Banks, it was,
Resoled, That the American party of
the different Militia Districts of the county
he requested to appoint three delegates
each, to assemble in Convention tit For
syth on the first Tuesday in August next,
Ur the purpose of nominating candidates
for themext General Assembly of the State
of Georgia.
#Jolm T. Stephens, Esq., then moved that
a copy of the proceedings of this meeting
he furnished each of the American papers
of the District for publication, which was
carried.
There being no further business the
meeting th< n adjourned.
J NO. L. WOOD WARD, Chm’n.
T. B. Cabaniss, Secretary.
inroitiAvr IK on euiofe.
St. Johns, N. F., May 9.
The steamer “Adelaide,” of the Galway
line of steamers, arrived to-day, with Liv
erpool dates to the 30th April, being three
days later than the intelligence by the
“Anglo Saxon,” and the same dates that
will be brought by the ‘Persia/ She brings
the following report of the
Markets :
Sales of cotton in Liverpool for the week,
30,000 bales ; the market has declined
l-4d. a 3-Bd., closing quiet from 6 3-Bd.
to 7 7-Bd.
Speculators took GOO bales and export
ers 2,500 bales. Owing to the continental
disquietude the market had assumed an
irregular and declining tendency. The
stock at Liverpool was 421,000 bales, of
which 351,000 bales were American.
Consols quoted at a fraction over 89.
3’he Bank had advanced her rate to 3
1-4 per cent.
Advices from Manchester were unfavor
able, and all qualities of goods had consid
erably declined.
Havre.— Business is almost suspended*
Tres Ordinaire 106. Tres Bas 101 ; l' ul
quotation-: arc nominal and prices dc-d^*